From: HAN (bhhan$##$tjmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 08 1999 - 21:38:00 EDT
Oh, how about R. Breslow from Columbia Univ.
He is an organic chemist.
He did well in many aspects in organic chemistry, such as aromaticity and
antiaromaticity, biomimics.
John Kerkines wrote:
> Forthcoming Tuesday is Nobel Prize day for Chemistry.
>
> By observing the trends in the way the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, one would
> see that Analytical and Organic Chemistry haven't seen a Nobel Prize for
> some years.
>
> The last Nobel Prize in "Analytical" Chemistry was given in 1991 to
> Richard Ernst for high resolution NMR. In the 80's three Nobels were given
> for analytical-crystallographic-related work (1982, Sir A. Klug, 1985
> Hauptman and Karle, 1988 Deisenhofer, Huber and Michel).
>
> If we do not count the 1996 prize for fullerenes as "organic" chemistry,
> George Olah's 1994 prize for carbocations is the last Nobel Prize given to
> an Organic Chemist. Organic-related Nobels in the past two decades include
> 1984 Merrifield, 1987 Cram, Lehn and Pedersen and 1990 Corey.
>
> Since I am neither an organic, nor an analytical chemist, I am not able to
> propose names of scientists in these fields who may have a chance in
> winning a Nobel Prize. The past experience has shown that the last years
> almost all of the laureates come from the USA, and at least one of them is
> at a high-level University (MIT, Cornell, Caltech, Stanford, Harvard to
> name a few). So, I would search for potential candidates in Analytical or
> Organic Chemistry in these Universities.
>
> There is always a chance for a "combination of fields" Nobel Prize. For
> example A.Bax who is first in the list of citations is doing NMR in bio
> systems (but probably he is too young for a Nobel Prize?). Another example
> would be Dick Zare in the field of spectroscopy (he is in Stanford), and
> S. Lippard in bioinorganic (he is in MIT).
>
> Another thing, is the number or papers or citations. There are 5 Nobel
> laureates among the first 30 cited chemists. Possibly there would be
> another one soon. Almost 10 of the first 30 are theoreticians, so they are
> eliminated since it is rare that the same field gets the Nobel Prize two
> consecutive years. I checked out some of the people that remain. Some
> names I found interesting were D. Seebach from ETH and K.C. Nicolaou from
> Scripps in Organic, and A. Bard in Analytical. There are more of them of
> course.
>
> Since most of you are more aware than me with what's happening in organic
> chemistry, if this year would be for organic chemistry, who would you
> propose and why?
>
> Regards,
> John Kerkines
> Ph.D. Student
> University of Athens, Greece
>
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